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Dr. Charles Sawyers, Vice President Joe Biden, and Dr. José Baselga.
In the News
Can America Cure Cancer?

During his State of the Union address, President Obama proposed a “moonshot” to cure cancer. Following that, MSK physicians attended a roundtable discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland to discuss progress on what a cure might look like.
Montage of beer, reproducing cells, and building blocks
Feature
License to Build: New Theory of Cancer Puts Metabolism at Center

MSK researchers are rethinking the relationship between metabolism and cancer, and finding insights in some unexpected places. Your beer glass, for example.
MSK Experts Weigh in on Mammography Debate

Many women are confused by conflicting guidelines on breast screening. And the latest recommendations made by the USPSTF are adding to that confusion. MSK experts are available to answer questions and explain what MSK recommends and why it is not altering its guidelines. To schedule an interview with a member of MSK’s breast cancer leadership team, please contact Nicole McNamara at [email protected].
Charles Rudin and David Jones, leaders of the Druckenmiller Center
In the Clinic
MSK’s New Fiona and Stanley Druckenmiller Center for Lung Cancer Research Takes on Biggest Cancer Killer

The new Fiona and Stanley Druckenmiller Center for Lung Cancer Research brings together MSK physicians and scientists in an intensive, multidisciplinary effort against the number-one cause of death from cancer in the nation.
Illustration of DNA strands
In the Lab
Project GENIE Aims to Make Sense of Vast Amounts of Genomic Data

A multi-institutional effort led by MSK’s Charles Sawyers is seeking to interpret information about the genetic causes of cancer.
Microscopic image of spherical cluster of cells, most of them pink cells with a smaller number of blue ones.
Feature
Three Compelling Cancer Advances from 2015

MSK researchers moved cancer science ahead in 2015 with landmark discoveries that suggest new treatment strategies and shed light on how the disease progresses.
Consuming alcohol is dangerous when you have liver cancer or cirrhosis.
Ask the Expert
Should a Person with Liver Cancer Stop Drinking Alcohol?

Learn why medical oncologist Ghassan Abou-Alfa counsels his patients with liver cancer to stop drinking.
Researchers at MSK have devised a technique, based on machine learning, that can predict the DNA binding preferences of a protein called a transcription factor.
In the Lab
A Netflix-Inspired Approach to Understanding Biology and Medicine

Computers currently help us choose our favorite movies, books, and TV shows. Will personalized medicines be next?
Kenneth Offit
In the Clinic
Innovative Research Center Will Explore Hereditary Cancer Genes

MSK’s new Robert and Kate Niehaus Center for Inherited Cancer Genomics is using the latest in gene sequencing technologies to discover the inherited causes of cancer.
Robert J. Motzer
Q&A
Immunotherapy Pioneered at MSK Receives FDA Approval for Advanced Kidney Cancer

Thanks to the work of MSK’s Robert Motzer, people with advanced renal cell carcinoma (a type of kidney cancer) now have a new immunotherapy option available to them.